Electrical Outage, Part II

[BakerAunt]

After rejoicing in the return of our electricity, for a little more than 24 hours, our area experienced severe weather that evening. For the first time since I have lived here, I heard tornado sirens that were not being tested. Power went out at 7:45 p.m. I got the terrified dog downstairs into the bathroom shower stall with me, while my husband watched the weather.. Fortunately, I had charged my weather radio, and we were able to hear from NOAA (an important and valuable resource whose funding and personnel should NOT be gutted) that the storm was heading toward Bourbon and Argos, IN, both of which took significant damage.

We immediately covered up the refrigerator and freezer again, once it was clear that the storm was to the side of us. We were hoping it was a general outage. The next morning, we heard the generators at the sewage plant operating, so we knew at least part of the town had lost electricity, but when the generators were no longer needed, it was clear that we were not just a part of the general outage, we were part of yet another specific outage. The top of a Siberian elm, at the opposite end of the road from the last tree incident, had come down and broken a couple of power poles, so we knew it would be at least a day. That evening, we again moved the house refrigerator contents to coolers in the shed.

We regained power after we went to bed on Thursday night, when all of a sudden, some lights came on at around 10:30 p.m. So, this time, we were without power for almost 27 hours. I got up and uncovered the refrigerator. The food survived. However, I'm going to go ahead and bake the cracker dough today, and I will prioritize using up any meat that was in the freezer.

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[Joan Simpson]

Prayers for you and hoping for no more bad weather.

[Italiancook]

Oh BakerAunt, so sorry to hear of your power outages. I'm so glad you had two twin mattress pads and the coolers to save your food. I had 6 trees near power lines felled in January. When the heavy storms rolled in here, I was thankful that those trees are gone.

Not trying to make light of your inconvenience, BakerAunt, but your outages remind me of Hurricane Ike. I no longer recall which State that hurricane hit, but its winds made their way up here. Massive power outage. The electric crews weren't here to repair the lines. They were all in the South, in that hurricane's State. Consequently, we were without electricity for 5 full days!

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